Leonard Fein
| Leonard Fein | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 1, 1934 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 2014 (aged 80) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, professor, publisher |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
Leonard J. Fein (July 1, 1934 – August 14, 2014), also known as Leibel Fein, was an American activist, writer and teacher who specialized in Jewish social themes.
Fein studied at the University of Chicago. He later received his PhD from Michigan State University.
Fein taught Political Science at MIT in the 1960s. At this time he was also the Deputy Director of the MIT/Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. He joined the Brandeis University faculty in 1970 as a Professor of Politics and Social Policy and the Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies.
He founded the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy, and was co-founder and for 12 years editor of Moment Magazine. He was characterized by Daniel Sokatch of the New Israel Fund as "the father of our Jewish social justice movement".
Fein is the founder of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a Jewish hunger-relief organization, started in 1985.
Fein helped establish Americans for Peace Now.
He was the author of four books, editor of two, and wrote extensively for newspapers, magazines, and journals. Starting in 1990, he wrote a syndicated weekly opinion column for The Forward newspaper.
Fein's books include Where Are We? The Inner Life of America’s Jews, and Israel: Politics and People. He was a contributor to The New York Times, The New Republic, Commentary, Commonweal, The Nation, Dissent and the Los Angeles Times.
His father was a professor of Jewish history.
He was the brother of Rashi Fein, Litt. D., Ph.D., a famed health economist termed 'a father of Medicare', and Professor of Economics of Medicine, Emeritus, in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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